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by Claudia Carr Levy
NEW YORK, NY
.- Upon first seeing Jason Stewarts new work, I thought of Filippo Brunelleschis facade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, the foundling hospital in Florence that he was commissioned to design in 1419. The arches of the hospital facade have always captivated me. Brunelleschis arches are perfect in their form and progression: perfect graceful architecture. Why, I wondered, did that architectural image appear as I looked at the series of paintings called Shaping Color? The precision of Jason Stewarts arcs in their spaces on canvas resonate with Brunelleschis architecture. The paintings seem to transpose geometric architectural form into pictorial space. Perhaps this geometry would seem to belie the dominance and importance of color in these paintings. Yet color holds the arcs; the arcs hold color. The more one looks at these works, the more one observes the paradox between color and form. And the mo
The First Art Newspaper on the Net
COLLEGEVILLE, PA
.- Two new exhibitions at the Berman Museum explore relationships between humans and the natural world. Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project unites, for the first time, two innovative textile art projects that give visual and tangible presence to a changing climate at a crucial moment of environmental precariousness. By translating temperature, precipitation, humidity, or wind speed data into stitch and color, these vibrant works potently and poignantly reveal the centrality of weather to notions of identity and experiences of place, and thus map the flow of temperature over time. In Alison Safford: Anthro(Site), multimedia artist Safford meditates on the motion of bodieshuman, celestial, and terrestrialas they converge, collide, depart, or reunite through random or cyclical events, instances of migration and mortality, and orientations to place and space. . More
Yale Art Gallery appoints Freyda Spira as the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings
Spira is currently Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW HAVEN, CONN
.-The Yale University Art Gallery announced the appointment of Freyda Spira as the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints and Drawings. Spira is currently Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where she specializes in Northern Renaissance and Baroque prints, drawings, and illustrated books. She will assume her new position at the Gallery on July 1.
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